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Second Republic lawmaker and avowed critic of the current APC-led government, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, in this interview with Bayo Akinloye talks about the ineptitude, insecurity, and hypocrisy that he thinks have characterised the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. He suggested that the Nigerian security agencies were in cahoots with the abductors of the Dapchi schoolgirls. Mohammed further   talks about the dilemma the APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu, has found himself, describing him as a sitting duck You’ve been a consistent and vocal critic of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Why have you always attacked the president and his administration? Are you doing this because you’ve not been invited to ‘come and chop? Far  from it! If you don’t know, you need to go and learn about my history. One, I was a persistent critic of the (Shehu) Shagari administration; I was a member of parliament. My ultimate aim was to protect democracy and give it ...

This   economic   slavery is important for the development of the French economy.   Whenever this traffic is likely to fail, France is ready for anything to reconquer it.   If a leader of the CFA zone no longer meets the requirements of France, Paris is blocking its foreign exchange reserves and more, France closes the banks in this country considered “rebel”.   This was the case of Côte d’ Ivoire with Laurent Gbagbo. A German newspaper accuses France of looting 440 billion euros each year to Africans through the CFA Franc.  “The French government collects from its former colonies each year 440 billion euros of taxes. France relies on the revenues coming from Africa, not to sink into economic insignificance, warns the former  president  Jacques Chirac. In the 1950s and 60s, France decided the French colonies of Africa to become independent.   Although the Paris government accepted formal declarations of independence, it called on Afri...

Dear sir, how are you doing? I hope you are kicking strong in the track of human. My name is Kalu Nwokoro Idika of Family Writers Press. I decided to write this open letter to you in other to properly address some of your political excesses that is gradually dragging the name of Igbo nation on the mud. Please, do not in anyway see this letter as a sneer to your personality but rather see it to be a piece of advice that a son is offering to his senseless father. BACKGROUND CHECK Sir, when I ran a background check on your very person, though with a questionable paternal identity, you were born on the 21of April 1960 to a woman named Mrs Eunice Kalu, in Abia State. You had your primary education at Christ the King School Aba. Thereafter, you enrolled into Abia State Government college, Umuahia after which you reluctantly proceeded to Barewa college, Zaria before you finally manipulated your way into the University of Maiduguri to study political science. Concomitantly, your spell i...

Dated March 8 and  signed by Soyata Maiga, ACHPR Chairperson, the letter was a response to the request from IPOB’s lawyers, Adulbert Legal Services, in favor of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the group, and its members all over the world. In a letter signed by Mr. Aloy Ejimakor, for Adulbert Legal Services, the lawyers had requested ACHPR to invoke its Rule 98 (i) to grant provisional measures calling on the Nigerian government not to take any further actions inimical to Mr. Kanu and IPOB members pending ACHPR’s decision on the matter brought by IPOB. Conveying the commission’s decision to President Buhari, the ACHPR Chairperson wrote: “I would like to draw Your Excellency's kind attention that at its 37th Ordinary Session held from 21 November to 5 December 2005 in Banjul, The Gambia, the Commission adopted Resolution 88 on the Protection of Human Rights and the Rule of Law in the Fight against Terrorism in Africa, which calls on African States to ensure that the measures take...

Pictured here from left to right: ICC First Vice-President Judge Robert Fremr, ICC President Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, ICC Second Vice-President Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut © ICC-CPI On 11 March 2018, the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), sitting in a plenary session, elected Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji  (Nigeria) as President of the Court for a three-year term with immediate effect.  Judge Robert Fremr  (Czech Republic) was elected First Vice-President and  Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut  (France) Second Vice-President. "I am deeply honoured to have been elected by my peers as President of the International Criminal Court. As I take up my duties, I feel encouraged that I am able to rely on the wide experience of the two Vice-Presidents, Judge Robert Fremr and Judge Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, both of whom I have closely worked with previously. I look forward to working together with them as well as with all the judges, all the Officials ...

About 1,500 rice farmers in Daura, Katsina state, where President Muhammadu Buhari hails from, have received various farming implements under the Phase 11 of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) anchor borrowers scheme. Chairman of the Daura chapter of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Nura Baure, confirmed this on Thursday. According to Baure, each farmer received two bags of fertilizers, two bottles of herbicides and a water pumping machine. They also got a bag of improved seedlings, two litres of liquid fertilizer and a bag of organic fertilizer each. He put the monetary value of the implements at N275,000 per beneficiary, which he said would be repaid within a year. Baure warned the farmers against diverting the implements or defaulting in repayment, adding that a mobile court had been established to try defaulters.  “The loan repayment must be in bags of paddy rice, not cash,” he stated.

The governor of Delta state, Ifeanyi Okowa, has cried out that the state is under siege by herdsmen. The governor made this statement during his visit to Isiokolo, Ethiope local government area of the state, in continuation of the town hall meetings across the state, it's reported that Governor Okowa insisted that Delta state will not allocate lands to the establishment of cattle colonies.  Ahead of Buhari's visit, over 2,000 police officers deployed in Plateau state Okowa said: “Unfortunately, in our state, we are under siege. But we are trying to manage it the best way possible. We have made a statement that we will not support cattle colonies in Delta state because we do not have enough land for our farmers, considering the fact that a lot of our land is already degraded from oil exploitation activities.  “We have raised these issues, along with other states, as we have no doubt that the clashes we have here is not limited to Delta state. “We believe the federal gover...